Lau-Fong Mak
Biographic Data
| ID | 4798813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lau-Fong Mak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lau-Fong |
| FAMILY NAME | Mak |
| SIGNATURE | MAK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Histories, Cultures, Identities
Reviewed by: Histories, Cultures, Identities: Studies in Malaysian Chinese Worlds Mak Lau Fong Histories, Cultures, Identities: Studies in Malaysian Chinese Worlds. By Sharon A. Carstens. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2005. x+314 pp. This is primarily a collection of the writer's articles published from 1983 to 2003. In this book, the articles expectedly have been thematically revised. The topic, one that Carstens has been working on for…
Occupational Structures of Chinese Immigrants in Early Malaya and North America
Chinese Subcommunal Elites in 19th-Century Penang
Based on published inscriptional data, the paper attempts to study a group of Chinese subcommunal elites in 19th-century Penang.The group comprises in general the social and the economic elite.The former is gauged by their frequency in donating to the many Chinese voluntary associations, and the latter by the tetal amount donated threughout the 19th century.It is found that the Hokkiens produced a disproportionately large group of social elites, …
The Chinese in Southeast Asia
Rigidity of System Boundary among Major Chinese Dialect Groups in Nineteenth-Century Singapore
The study attempts to delineate the degree of system rigidity of three major dialect groups, namely, the Cantonese, the Hakkas and the Hokkiens. The principal source of data is derived from inscriptions collected by Chen and Tan (1972). The findings reveal that at the individual level the system boundary of the Hokkiens was more rigid than that of the Cantonese and the Hakkas. This confirms earlier observations made at the organizational level.Ea…
The Kongsis And The Triad
The Chinese in Southeast Asia
Rigidity of System Boundary among Major Chinese Dialect Groups in Nineteenth-Century Singapore
The study attempts to delineate the degree of system rigidity of three major dialect groups, namely, the Cantonese, the Hakkas and the Hokkiens. The principal source of data is derived from inscriptions collected by Chen and Tan (1972). The findings reveal that at the individual level the system boundary of the Hokkiens was more rigid than that of the Cantonese and the Hakkas. This confirms earlier observations made at the organizational level.Ea…
The Kongsis And The Triad
Rigidity of System Boundary among Major Chinese Dialect Groups in Nineteenth-Century Singapore
The study attempts to delineate the degree of system rigidity of three major dialect groups, namely, the Cantonese, the Hakkas and the Hokkiens. The principal source of data is derived from inscriptions collected by Chen and Tan (1972). The findings reveal that at the individual level the system boundary of the Hokkiens was more rigid than that of the Cantonese and the Hakkas. This confirms earlier observations made at the organizational level.Ea…
The Chinese in Southeast Asia
Chinese Subcommunal Elites in 19th-Century Penang
Based on published inscriptional data, the paper attempts to study a group of Chinese subcommunal elites in 19th-century Penang.The group comprises in general the social and the economic elite.The former is gauged by their frequency in donating to the many Chinese voluntary associations, and the latter by the tetal amount donated threughout the 19th century.It is found that the Hokkiens produced a disproportionately large group of social elites, …
Occupational Structures of Chinese Immigrants in Early Malaya and North America
Histories, Cultures, Identities
Reviewed by: Histories, Cultures, Identities: Studies in Malaysian Chinese Worlds Mak Lau Fong Histories, Cultures, Identities: Studies in Malaysian Chinese Worlds. By Sharon A. Carstens. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2005. x+314 pp. This is primarily a collection of the writer's articles published from 1983 to 2003. In this book, the articles expectedly have been thematically revised. The topic, one that Carstens has been working on for…
Asian Studies and History (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · China (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Asian studies (2 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (2 works) · Law (2 works)